August 15, 2025
Day of Action 2025
Day of Action 2025

(Cassopolis, MI) – Sixteen Midwest Energy and Communications (MEC) employees volunteered at two sites in southwest Michigan for the cooperative’s annual Day of Action community service event.

Combined, volunteers donated more than 110 hours to complete the following.

Habitat for Humanity: Volunteers worked at a Mendon-area home to build an accessibility ramp and storage room door, clean out a car port and storage room, and trim trees and bushes.

Four volunteers doing construction work next to a home.
A volunteer building an accessibility ramp to the door of a home.
Two volunteers building a roof over an accessibility ramp.
Two volunteers building a wooden foundation for a ramp.
A finished accessibility ramp.
Two volunteers cutting down thick vegetation.
Five volunteers loading tree limbs into a pickup truck.
Four volunteers raking vegetation.
A smiling volunteer carrying a weed trimmer.
A yard that has been cleared of thick vegetation.

 

Village of Mendon: Volunteers painted curbs downtown, spread mulch at area parks and playgrounds, and power washed sidewalks, benches, picnic areas, and pavilions.

A volunteer uses a power washer in front of the Mendon Municipal Center.
A volunteer power washes the sidewalk in front of a picnic area.
A volunteer power washes a sidewalk in front of the Mendon Community Center.
The sidewalk in front of the Mendon Municipal Center after power washing.
Two volunteers stand next to a large pile of black mulch.
A volunteer spreads mulch next to a playground slide.
A volunteer spreads mulch next to a net.
Two volunteers smile in front of a playground slide with finished mulch.
A playground with newly spread mulch under all equipment.
A volunteer paints a roadside curb yellow.
A newly painted yellow roadside curb.

 

Each year, MEC holds a Day of Action event as part of the cooperative’s vision of creating vibrant, relevant, and sustainable rural communities. MEC partners with local organizations and employees volunteer to spend the workday completing projects that will benefit the community.

More information about MEC’s community efforts is available at teammidwest.com/community.

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